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Originally Posted by Katie
Well....he did get counseling, though....and the department head did reach out to him and try and connect with him. He had to WANT help to benefit from it and I have a feeling that he probably considered this help to be a front.
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That's true, to want help is of course the first step.
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as for the depression....people are depressed and never do stuff like this (hell, I have been diagnosed with clinical depression a couple times in my life) They usually harm themselves not others.
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True again, but this guy was depressed, and quite violent and aggressive. Its not everyone who get depressed, that get that aggressive. Just that is a good indicator that he was unstable. Not just depressed.
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As for his writing....it is an interesting window to his brain. People write violent things like that every day and would never dream of doing such a thing. the writing creates the output for their feelings and it never goes any farther. Just because you write it does not mean you're gonna do it.
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No, but just mix that with my above comment, and you need to be careful with such people. Now, did it all happen in the same time.. The depression, the essays, the play, the level of aggressivity... This, we don't know. But it doesn't really matter, it just adds up to one another.
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Each of those things individually is not the beacon to tag and say "yep, that's it everyone who has/does this stuff will certianly follow suit" (I've seen alot of that today in the media "OH NOEZ THE STORIES HE WROTE")
BUT put them together and you may have a time bomb....Reasearchers have looked at what causes people to do things like this and have found three prominent pillers: Mental Disorders, Brain injury, and an Abusive history. the first two to impair judgement and the final to kindle the anger you need to carry out something as horrific as what we saw yesterday. It will be interesting to see the background of this guy and what was making him tick...and if he had all those three factors
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What we know so far : He did had mental disorders (depression and violence), brain injury might be emotional injury in this case as it was mentionned that he wanted to get his girlfriend. They surely broke up and that triggered the madness acts. As for Abusive history, we didn't have any details on that one yet that I remember.. Or you could maybe put the lost of his girlfriend in this category...
Really, we will of course be centered when we have all the details. But its pretty clear to me, that something could have been done for that guy, that never was done. I don't know what people can do in these kind of situation, but I'm sure that something more radical could have been done for him. But like I said, I don't know what...